[Lowfer] split it up

[Bill Ashlock]

Bob,

>Just wondered what the thoughts are in forming another watering hole
>,,say fer the folks in the mid west, wherever. With the advantage of >the 
>loopers and others in the north east grouping around a common freq, why not 
>create another geographical freq? Sure makes it nice to cover many stations 
>with one setting of the rcv

>Along with this can you get enough separation within the LOFER band to
>allow watching and transmitting at the same time. If this can be done >then 
>the obvious idea would be to start QSOing ,, in Duplex ??

Good ideas! I was pondering about this yesterday when I was thinking about a 
new site for the RX loop so I can transmit and receive at the same time. I'm 
getting the bug to do more receiving now that the RX antenna situation has 
greatly improved, but it's always a conflict with transmitting. I'll 
determine how far away from 185.3, frequency-wise, along with the physical 
separation of the antennas.

It's not that good of a deal to make this a regional grouping because we 
tend to interfere with each others receiving ability. For example John A and 
I mess up each others screens since we are 40mi and only 3Hz away from each 
other. Jay at 115mi is strong but just low enough in strength that he 
doesn't modulate my ARGO AGC to any great degree.

There's a lot of band width there and I suppose changing frequencies is not 
that difficult for most of us. I'm interested in other's thoughts on this - 
particularly from 'receivers' Mitch and Larry that feed us our 
ego-satisfying daily signal reports. <G>

Bill



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